[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1431 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1431

 To prohibit the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 
  raising the minimum urban area population to qualify a metropolitan 
         statistical area from 50,000, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 28, 2021

  Mr. Tester introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 
  raising the minimum urban area population to qualify a metropolitan 
         statistical area from 50,000, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Metropolitan Statistical Area 
Stabilization Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION AND STUDY ON METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA 
              DESIGNATION.

    The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall not raise 
the minimum urban area population to qualify a metropolitan statistical 
area from 50,000.
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